hummalumma
05-22-2006, 06:07 PM
If you seek happiness, try reducing the suffering of others.
If you feel that you can not do anything to help Tibet, than support someone around you.
The problems facing Tibet and it's future is more than any one person can solve. Right now, our world is faced with so many crises. Even Richard Gere who is a huge proponent of Tibet is championing other causes.
There is a new railway that goes into Tibet and many mining companies setting up there.
As it stands, the youth are succumbing to cheap alcohol and cigarettes.
The Tibetan youth need to speak Chinese if they are to work or get an education. They are losing their heritage and culture slowly but surely.
In Lhasa, their capital, the Han Chinese outnumber the indigenous Tibetans, 8 to 1.
IT IS CULTURAL GENOCIDE.
However, on the scale of human atrocities around the world right now, it is lower on the totem pole. The UN has found it difficult to support a land of Buddhists. They don't know what to do. All they know about is conflict when both sides are armed. In the history of civilization, only 10% of it was spent not fighting...and Tibet was the only nation to not fight at all.
It is not about hating the chinese as a people. It is about a handful of snapperheads that enforce a certain regiment, an authoritarian, fascist rule that seems so archaic but it is about enormous, bombastic power. The chinese government is a brute. A bully. Maybe one day someone will take on the bully. It will take a person of economic power and great conviction. One who understands the word 'compassion' and 'empathy'.
It may happen after the Dalai Lama dies, when people realize that it is too late and a great leader has been lost. When people realize that they have taken this gentle man among them for granted. That all he ever wanted was peace for all, not just for his people. Tibet will become a symbol of what could have been and not what it should have been. Maybe people will one day realize that the PRC are cruel and that humanity is more important than economics.
If you feel that you can not do anything to help Tibet, than support someone around you.
The problems facing Tibet and it's future is more than any one person can solve. Right now, our world is faced with so many crises. Even Richard Gere who is a huge proponent of Tibet is championing other causes.
There is a new railway that goes into Tibet and many mining companies setting up there.
As it stands, the youth are succumbing to cheap alcohol and cigarettes.
The Tibetan youth need to speak Chinese if they are to work or get an education. They are losing their heritage and culture slowly but surely.
In Lhasa, their capital, the Han Chinese outnumber the indigenous Tibetans, 8 to 1.
IT IS CULTURAL GENOCIDE.
However, on the scale of human atrocities around the world right now, it is lower on the totem pole. The UN has found it difficult to support a land of Buddhists. They don't know what to do. All they know about is conflict when both sides are armed. In the history of civilization, only 10% of it was spent not fighting...and Tibet was the only nation to not fight at all.
It is not about hating the chinese as a people. It is about a handful of snapperheads that enforce a certain regiment, an authoritarian, fascist rule that seems so archaic but it is about enormous, bombastic power. The chinese government is a brute. A bully. Maybe one day someone will take on the bully. It will take a person of economic power and great conviction. One who understands the word 'compassion' and 'empathy'.
It may happen after the Dalai Lama dies, when people realize that it is too late and a great leader has been lost. When people realize that they have taken this gentle man among them for granted. That all he ever wanted was peace for all, not just for his people. Tibet will become a symbol of what could have been and not what it should have been. Maybe people will one day realize that the PRC are cruel and that humanity is more important than economics.